I agree 100%, just wanted to stress the "be cautious" part! Blessings!

And please keep us posted.  Will be worried about you, but also eager to hear the good news!

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But I have offered him MANY times for him to take over the bills.  He could have told me what to spend, how to spend it, etc...Money did not matter to me when it came to things like that.  I despise doing bills.  But I had offered many times, he agreed many times but never ONCE did he even go back and look at our bills or anything so I just kept paying them, after discussing with him what I was planning on paying first, etc.

I just wish his parents weren't involved.  They put so much stuff in his head.  I know there are 2 sides to EVERY story and I know I am far from perfect.  I just hate to see our marriage end of his parents butting in where it doesn't belong.  They enjoy being able to control him.

Its the sentence, "proves that they can produce more than the vets." Its not about production, its about knowledge.  Now your statement here, "I was considered good enough to get the brand new doc that was extraordinarily picky with his documents, and I was given the two PAs that no one else wanted to touch." That's what should be rewarded and good for you!  IMHO that's what being a good MT is all about.

I can understand where you're coming from. When I was a newbie myself back in the 70s, I was complimented by the docs and got to do the hard dictators. I wasn't fast though.  Of course, back then production wasn't really a consideration, we got raises on our quality. 

I'm sure you can produce circles around me, my thumb is numb as we speak, but, no offense, you don't have my knowledge.  In the production-driven industry MT is now, your high production is rewarded, my knowledge is not. That is my experience which is probably hard to grasp for today's MTs like yourself, having been brought up in the production-crazed MT world of today.  Be that it may, I'm proud of my knowledge and sick to my stomach that soon all of it will only be worth minimum wage as I get to do VR for 3.5 cpl.

I will add my blessings to you, Bless you.  I wonder what today will bring.  Perhaps today we work for free.

You are blessed to have love in your home, sent to you in the form of a cat. Animal companions are much like toddlers--they don't realize that you are working and want two things from you, love and attention. How many times one of my twin sons would press a key or do something to get my attention as I worked. Same thing with my husband's dog, and later my little girl's kitten. In those moments when any of them would send a report back for me, I would call my supervisor and explain. I learned to proof my work paragraph by paragraph, as each paragraph was completed and to save my work frequently. I also learned how to distract the pets with a box of toys or, specifically in the case of the cat, a long ribbon with a toy at the end, looped through a metal eye at the other end of the room--the other end of the ribbon tied to another metal eye on my desk. When the cat would bother me, I would pull the ribbon and the toy at the other end would jump. Also, try a Renuzit solid in a citrus smell--our cat hates it--this will keep the cat away. If your cat likes to reach through openings at your desk, put up cardboard so it can't do that anymore.

The cat loves you, much the way a little child would, and wants to be with you, get your attention. Still, if the cat is causing you that much additional stress, take it to the local Humane Society before your temper gets the better of you.

I've transcribed since 1983.  You can lessen hand stress if you observe how you hold your hands as you type.  When I was in my twenties I noticed that there was a real difference in the way I held my hands and how the older transcriptionists (they had their wrists up and hands pointing down at the keyboard).  I have always had my wrists laying on something and my fingers are going up.  I have never had one bit of carpal tunnel or pain whatsoever.

i am quite upset.  one of my co-workers passed away.  we here all know it was from job stress, but we are not to admit it and were repremanded so by our superiors.  basically it came down to "die or get fired".  lucky for her she died before she could get fired.

now i am sitting here at work today wondering what the heck am i supposed to do? we cannot talk about the job stress and that is what did her in, but she was sick and getting sicker and this is why she passed away.  she was sick and getting sicker from the stress dawg-gone it. 

nobody gets it.

tuesday she told me that a lot of her sickness had to do with wondering if she was going to have a job or not and what would she do if she got fired?  she was beside herself with worry.  she worked her for 25 years, and was a good employee and excellent Transcriptionist until the new supervisor took over and started ragging on her like a pit bull dog and his prey.  and this is a catholic hospital.  i guess this is the new christian work ethic.

i need to vent.  any comments would be appreciated but since i am at work please make them nice.  i have had enough bad stuff happen around here today.

So, you're saying that you got tired of the stress and long hours so you bacame a TRANSCRIPTIONIST!  You crack me up.  Everybody knows that as a Transcriptionist there is never any stress or long hours.

When my kids were young, there were a few tricks I used to cut down on hectic mornings.  I didn't make sandwiches ahead but I did prebag chips and cookies and place is a drawer.  That way just had to reach in and grab a couple of bags and lunch was halfway prepared.  The night before, kids always picked out the clothes for the next day.   And there was no changing minds that morning either, or they lost 1/2 hour of TV time.  Also, backpacks got loaded up the night before and placed by the door.  A little extra thought and effort the night before made mornings a little less hectic.

have several reports for you to transcribe have different degrees of difficulty.  One may be ESL, one may be dictating on a cell phone on his car, one may be trying to do a 15 dictation in 3 minutes, etc.   Leaving a blank is definitely better than guessing.   They are just trying to get a feel for your skill level.  Okay you can't do the ESL or the speedy doc, but you can do the orthopedic doc with ease.  

They may need someone for a difficult account and maybe you won't get that job, but they may need someone for clinic notes, or maybe an easier account and you would do well with that.   You'll get paid less than if you could so the slurring doc without blanks. 

With the slurring doc listen to the report one time time all the way through.  Don't try to fill in any blanks.  Next go back and listen again, this time trying to fill in blanks.  You may be able to get one or two of them this time around.

If you don't pass/get hired at least it was one more experience you have had. 

I don't test well.  I can ace the transcription part, but if they have questions on the test I may not do well.  I had one test that was timed and I was really freaking because I didn't know some of the answers without looking them up and the test timed out on me before I even finished it.  They still offered me a position.

One thing is for sure, you won't get the job if you don't turn in the test.